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Dear colleague,

We are delighted to introduce the 2013 New Energy Pioneers.

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneers programme, now in its fourth year, is designed to identify and highlight innovative companies that have the potential to transform elements of the clean energy sector and related indus-tries. In running the programme, we aim to encourage successful innovators in this fast-moving industry, and so support the move towards a more resilient and adaptable energy system.

2012 was a challenging year for the clean energy sector, with an 11% fall in total global investments to $269bn. The underlying trends driving this de-cline were policy uncertainty and tighter credit conditions in some countries, combined with strong pressure on prices and margins in a number of manu-facturing sectors, in particular photovoltaic modules and wind turbines. None-theless, there were notable exceptions – China continued to shatter clean energy records with $68bn of investment in 2012, up 20% from the previous year. The “BASIC” countries (of Brazil, South Africa, India and China) attract-ed a record 35% of all investments. Most importantly, sharp falls in manufac-turers’ selling prices led to substantial reductions in the costs of many forms of clean energy, notably solar and onshore wind, setting the stage for strong growth in future years as their cost competitiveness continues to improve. Innovative companies such as our Pioneers will play an important role in ac-celerating this trend.

Entries to the 2013 New Energy Pioneers programme have been stronger than ever – over 200 applications from around the world – a testimony to the forces driving the sector and the quality of entrepreneurs entering this arena. What is clear is that there is no slowdown in innovation by robust companies offering new solutions and cleaner and more efficient uses of energy.

The Pioneers chosen represent a broad spectrum of innovation and reflect the growth trends experienced in particular markets. New for 2013 are winners active in optimising home and commercial building energy usage through interactive platforms and advanced energy management systems. We see the emergence of innovative energy efficiency products, including smart daylight technologies and air conditioning systems. Furthermore, increasingly stringent water regulatory standards and the emergence of new industrial sectors such as shale gas are driving a rapid development of water manage-ment and water treatment products. We have a similarly diverse and exciting representation of innovators in solar and bioenergy.

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02 // 2013 NEW ENERGY PIONEERS

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Judging is undertaken by a panel of industry experts, supported by Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysts and technology specialists. Applicants underwent a rigorous assessment against the three key criteria: potential scale, innovation and momentum. It takes more than just a great idea to be successful – to break the mould those great ideas need robust business models, the potential to grow to a level where they have a major impact as well as real traction within the industry.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance would like to thank its Supporting Partner Ernst & Young and all members of the Selection Committee. It is their insights and contribu-tion that make the New Energy Pioneers award so worthwhile.

We hope you will take the time during the next few days to get to know our 10 New Energy Pioneers better. You can find them at the Networking Lounge throughout the Summit sessions.

We congratulate this year’s winners, welcome them to our expanding group of Pio-neers and look forward to tracking their progress.

Michael Wilshire

Director of Analysis

Bloomberg New Energy Finance

10 companies have been selected as 2013 New Energy Pioneers. They come from bioenergy, energy efficiency, digital technology, solar, and water sectors. Companies from around the world are able to apply directly or are nominated by members of the clean energy community. The judging process is rigorous, and the winning companies progressed through several stages before being presented to the Selection Committee for the final review. The Selection Com-mittee comprises an independent panel of industry experts and assesses the applicants against our comprehensive criteria. Bloomberg New Energy Finance technology experts advise the panel and are active through the assessment stages.

We used the following criteria for assessment:

1) Potential scale

What is the scale of the opportunity being addressed? Is it a nice niche but of limited scale? Will it transform a major industry, or could it change the world, impacting everyone? Is your business local or can it be rolled out in multiple geographical markets? Will it spawn an entire system of new supporting businesses?

The transformation required in the world’s energy and resource infrastructure is on an enormous scale, so thinking big beats thinking small.

2) Innovation

How original is your technology or business model? Is it a ground-breaking modification of what others are doing, or is it something completely new? Is your technology patented or otherwise protected from being copied? Do you have a plan to stay ahead of the game?

Pioneers do not have to be technology companies, but they do have to be doing something new and different.

3) Momentum

Can you demonstrate strong traction? Are you still funded by R&D grants or are you making real commercial sales? Do you have strong industry partnerships in place? Have you established distribution channels to take your product or service to market? Is your executive team experienced in successfully launching new ventures?

To break the mould you have to do more than dream – your ideas have to com- pete in the marketplace and win.

To apply or to nominate a company for the 2014 New Energy Pioneers Award email [email protected] with the company name and contact information. Applications will open in September/October 2013.

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PIONEERS SELECTION CRITERIA

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“Advantix Systems is revolutionising the energy efficiency of buildings with an economically attractive, environmentally sustainable technology. The opportuni-ty for energy savings in the HVAC sector is greater than all of the power gen-erated today by the solar industry – yet this opportunity has remained largely untapped to date. “ Hannah Granade, President

Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 125 Year Founded: 2006 Website: www.advantixsystems.com

Advantix Systems, based in Sunrise, Florida, has harnessed a breakthrough, patented technology that reduces HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) energy consumption by 30% to 50%. The key behind this saving is its proprietary liquid desiccant system – a natural, salt water solution that extracts humidity from the air while cooling it at the same time. Conventional HVAC systems have only one method of removing humidity: over-cooling the air to dew point, and extracting moisture through condensation. The remaining air is then excessively cold and must be reheated to a comfortable level – a wasteful, energy-intensive process. Salt has a natural affinity for water, so Advantix’s technology can deliver precise humidity control without overcooling, and significantly cut energy costs in commercial and industrial applications.

Space conditioning is typically the largest, single-most energy consuming system in a building, responsible for one third of total energy use. However the global HVAC market has seen little innovation in the past 60 years, resulting in losses for many industries that make substantial investments in air conditioning and dehumidification.

Advantix technology is already deployed in more than 850 applications in commercial and industrial facilities around the world, in the pharmaceutical, food processing, health care, electronics, dry storage and plastic molding sectors. Top customers include Procter & Gamble, Tyson Foods, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, and Hilton Hotels. Schools, condominiums, hotels and supermarkets are also taking advantage of Advantix’s technology to reduce their energy consumption and improve their bottom line.


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Hannah Granade, President

Hannah Granade has more than 10 years’ experience in developing energy and environmental management solu-tions. Since joining Advantix Systems as president in 2010, she has been instrumental in growing its installed base tenfold and worldwide orders by more than 200%. She was named by Fast Company as one of the “Most Creative People in Business” for 2012. Prior to joining Advantix, she was a partner in the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where she served energy, industrial and aerospace and defense companies on strategy, growth, regulation and cli-mate change topics. Hannah received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College.

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“BuildingIQ is the go-to source for HVAC energy optimisation, providing energy savings and reducing the carbon footprint for buildings across the globe. Our goal is to get people thinking about energy consumption, not only in dollars and cents but also in terms of sustainability and securing our future.” Michael Zimmerman, CEO

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Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 30 Year Founded: 2009 Website: www.buildingiq.com

BuildingIQ is a leading provider of advanced energy management software that actively predicts and adjusts HVAC settings in commercial buildings. As the only supplier of patent-pending Predictive Energy Optimisation technology, BuildingIQ’s cloud-based plug-in is powering energy savings in buildings across the globe with significant reductions in HVAC energy cost. Support from tier one industry leaders including Aster Capital (backed by Schneider Electric, Alstom and Solvay), the venture capital unit of Siemens Financial Services, Paladin Capital and the energy division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has allowed BuildingIQ to deliver measurable results using the latest in demand response, weather forecasts, building occupancy and market energy prices.

BuildingIQ believes that the next generation of smart grid buildings needs energy management systems that can automatically make changes to building controls in real-time. If a building is not able to do this, it is in danger of falling behind and potentially failing to meet future government mandates. With a building energy management systems market expected to reach $6bn within the next seven years, the future of smart, efficient technology will be crucial for tomorrow’s grid.

BuildingIQ‘s management team and advisors bring decades of valuable experience with technology and technology start-ups, energy management and commercial buildings. Their combined skill sets, track record and global networks put BuildingIQ in a unique position to achieve its mission.

Michael Zimmerman, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Zimmerman has served as CEO of BuildingIQ since its foundation in 2009 and guides the company’s overall direction and strategic partnerships. Michael is a frequent speaker on building energy efficiency, cloud-based applications and the intersection of the smart building and the smart grid, at conferences and events including GlobalCon, NFMT, Realcomm, NREL’s Industry Growth Forum, GreenBuild, Cleantech Forum, GreenGov 2012 and VERGE San Francisco. Michael has spent the last 20-plus years working with high-growth technology companies as an executive, board member or investor. Prior to BuildingIQ, he was a general partner at Technology Venture Partners, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Altos Ventures and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

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“At d.light, we envision a future that is not reliant on fossil fuels or grid-based electricity, where all people are empowered to capitalise on the freedom and opportunities that come with reliable, clean, safe, cost-effective off-grid light and power.”

Donn Tice, CEO

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Donn Tice, Chief Executive Officer

Donn Tice brings 30 years of experience in consumer products, clean technology, and global distribution. Donn joined d.light in 2008 as an advisor, then board member, became chairman in 2010, and has served as chairman and CEO since 2011. His passion for base-of-the-pyramid consumer businesses began when Donn was a lucky young graduate student mentored by the late CK Prahalad. For Procter & Gamble, he led the $1bn Folgers brand to market leadership, and built $100m-plus new businesses for Dreyer’s Ice Cream (Nasdaq: DRYR, later acquired by Nestle) and other private enterprises. Donn has a BA in economics from the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), and an MBA from The University of Michigan.

d.light is a social enterprise whose purpose is to create new freedoms for customers that do not have reliable power, so they can enjoy a brighter future. The company was founded to enable universal access to clean, safe, reliable, affordable off-grid light and power for the 2.3bn people globally without reliable electricity. d.light products not only disrupt the cycle of poverty and mitigate climate change, but the company is also proving that a social enterprise can effectively scale.

By providing clean, safe, renewable light, our products provide d.light customers with freedom and opportunity: the freedom to do more productive activities in the evening like studying or working; the freedom to live safe from the fear of kerosene fires; the freedom from breathing noxious fumes; the opportunity to be in a smoke-free environment and preserve their eyesight; the opportunity to spend money that would otherwise be spent on kerosene for their personal benefit or that of their family and friends; and the opportunity to eliminate carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

In merely five years in business, nearly 3m portable d.light products have empowered over 13m off-grid customers in over 40 countries thus far. d.light has regional offices in Africa, India, China and the US and has been pioneering innovative approaches to product development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing. In the short term, our goal is to empower 100m people with solar-powered solutions by 2016. We recently pushed this goal forward by four years, from 2020.

d.light is committed to introducing innovation continually to its product line. The latest models of its portable solar lights contain proprietary technology that offer: (a) four hours of safe, bright light for well over five years, (b) a maintenance-free battery that never needs replacement, (c) an unprecedented free-replacement warranty (d) new, brighter, longer-lasting LEDs. These changes are coupled with enhanced ruggedness and the same versatility, and offered at the same affordable prices.

Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 100 Year Founded: 2007 Website: www.dlightdesign.com

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“Our products and services help increase energy output from solar PV arrays and also lower the costs to operate and maintain these arrays over their lifetimes, lowering LCOE of solar PV generation and increasing its attractiveness as an investment. Draker’s solutions also address the control and communications issues associated with integrating solar PV with existing utility grids and grid operators. As solar investment and assets proliferate, increasingly larger global portfolios of commercial and utility-scale solar PV generation assets will need to be monitored, managed and controlled. This is Draker’s expertise.”

Charles (Chach) Curtis, CEO

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Charles Curtis, Chief Executive Officer

Charles ‘Chach’ Curtis brings to Draker over 20 years’ experience in corporate finance and venture-backed growth companies. From 2000 to 2007, Chach was the CFO and VP of sales and business development at Northern Power Systems, a developer and integrator of alternative and renewable energy systems. He has also served as COO for Creative Microsystems Corporation, a nanotechnology development lab focused on solar cell development. In 2012, Chach was named the Small Business Administration Vermont Small Business Person of the Year for his outstanding leadership at Draker. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

Since 1999, Draker has led the industry with innovative performance monitoring, asset management and grid integration solutions for commercial and utility-scale solar PV systems. Draker was the first company in the US to provide independent monitoring of the energy produced by solar arrays and compare that output to expected production given available sunlight, system electrical configuration and other determining factors.

Draker’s proprietary Clarity DC hardware and Intelligent Array software provide system owners and operators tools to increase energy yield and lower operating and maintenance costs through pinpoint troubleshooting and ROI-based O&M decision-making. These improvements can help lower levelised cost of electricity and bring the cost of generation from solar PV arrays closer to, if not better than, grid parity. Additionally, Draker’s intelligent SCADA and communications platforms deliver flexible and cost-effective approaches to integrating solar PV generation onto utility grids.

Draker serves the global solar PV industry, which has a cumulative installed base of 100 GW through 2012 with an expected additional 250 GW installed from 2013 through 2017. Draker is the North American market share leader in its segment. In 2012 the company entered the Japanese market, and will continue to expand globally in 2013 and beyond. To date, Draker’s solutions have been selected for over 1,000 commercial and utility-scale sites in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, ranging in size up to 33MW with aggregate generating capacity in excess of 700MW.

Draker is privately held and funded by venture capital and strategic investors. The company has closed three rounds of financing to date and has established a seven-figure working capital credit facility.

Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 80 Year Founded: 1999 Website: www.drakerenergy.com

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“EcoNation will continue to be the daylight technology leader, offering those energy solutions that are defined by the ‘Eco’ in EcoNation: the highest eco-nomic AND ecological value, for all stakeholders. Our solutions show that energy and environment CAN go hand in hand.” Maarten Michielssens, CEO

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Headquarters: Belgium Number of Employees: 10 Year Founded: 2009 Website: www.econation.be

EcoNation is the inventor of smart daylight technology and smart daylight business. Through proprietary technology and a customised financial model, EcoNation invests in clients’ roofs and in their energy savings. By implementing the LightCatcher technology, based on intelligent skylight and performance monitoring, EcoNation can lower clients’ energy costs immediately, without any upfront investment, with guaranteed results.

EcoNation, awarded ‘Young Enterprise of the Year’ as well as ‘Innovative Company of the Year’ in its home country Belgium, developed and commercialises the ‘LightCatcher’, the first active and intelligent daylight system in the world which captures, enhances, filters and optimises daylight through a skylight, green motorised mirror and lenses. With only a 1% roof opening, the LightCatcher can provide enough light for 100% of the floor. It allows owners to switch off artificial light fittings for up to 3,650 hours per year. Its impact on environment and energy bill are eight times higher than that of solar panels. LightCatcher got awarded ‘Best Available Technology’ in Europe, qualified as the best performing daylight system available in the market. Independent research performed by light experts of the European Commission, makes clear that the LightCatcher is up to 10 times more efficient than some of the best known daylight systems in the world.

While energy prices are going up, the cheapest energy remains the energy that you do not use. LightCatcher is all about energy efficiency for industrial and public buildings: we switch off the light while having no connection to the energy grid whatsoever.

For those customers that want to save on their energy bill but are not willing to invest, because of budget constraints or the economic crisis or other priorities, EcoNation provides a turnkey solution: we invest in the customer’s roof and install LightCatchers, we prefinance the whole system, we switch on/off the light fittings through proprietary, wireless technology, we monitor the savings with the customer and we invoice part of these savings. A totally new approach in daylight industry: we install our technology for free and ask (a tiny bit of) money for free daylight.

EcoNation’s technology has a proven track record in nine countries as of today, both in industrial and public buildings. While its headquarters are located in Belgium, EcoNation has local branches in Morocco (North Africa) and China.

Maarten Michielssens, Chief Executive Officer

Maarten Michielssens is the founder and CEO of EcoNation, the Ghent based company that invented the LightCatcher Light Energy technology and financial business model. He obtained a Master degree at the University of Leuven (2005), followed by an MBA degree at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (2006).


“Clean water is the most vital component of production processes, and scarce water resources and environmental regulations can limit both pro-duction capacity and profits. Ecosphere Technologies is dedicated to solv-ing critical water recovery, water treatment, and water recycling challenges for major industries around the world – helping protect assets and mitigate risks.”

Dennis McGuire, CEO

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Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 75 Year Founded: 1998 Website: www.ecospheretech.com

Ecosphere Technologies (OTCQB: ESPH) is a water engineering, technology licensing and innovative US manufacturing company that develops non-chemical water treatment solutions for industrial markets. Ecosphere has been a water industry innovator since 1998, when company founders began developing eco-friendly technologies to solve major water remediation challenges on land and at sea. The majority of Ecosphere’s green technologies focus on the cavitating properties of water and eliminating the wide-spread use of toxic chemicals.

Many industrial wastewater treatment processes use chemicals – chemicals that are costly and harmful to the environment. Ozonix is a chemical-free process that saturates contaminated water with ozone, using hydrodynamic cavitation, acoustic cavitation, and electrochemical oxidation to oxidise and destroy micro-organisms, while generating no harmful disinfection by-products. As water is treated, bacteria cell walls are destroyed and contaminates are oxidised, producing clean water that is ready for recycling and re-use on future operations.

In the case of hydraulic fracturing, water innovation is critical for ensuring the long-term success of the industry - and chemical-free water treatment is a prime example of innovation that is enabling energy production with improved economic, environmental and social benefits. Today, energy exploration companies are using Ozonix to treat and recycle the water used in oil and natural gas well drilling and completion programs to reduce costs, increase treatment efficiencies and eliminate liquid chemicals from operations around the US. Since 2008, Ecosphere’s Ozonix process has enabled its customers to treat and reuse more than 2.5bn gallons of water and eliminate more than two million gallons of chemicals on approximately 700 oil and natural gas wells in major shale plays across the US.


Dennis E. McGuire, Chief Executive Officer

Dennis E. McGuire is the founder, chairman, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Ecosphere Technologies. He is the principal inventor of Ecosphere’s intellectual property and guides the ongoing development of innovative clean water processes and technologies, drawing on his two decades of research and development on the cavitating properties of water and using energy in water for environmental water treatment applications. A recipient of over 30 US and international pat-ents, Dennis has most recently received five US patents for the Ecosphere Ozonix technology, under the Patent Office’s Green Technology Fast Track programme.

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“Harvest is creating a more sustainable future by helping communities better manage and beneficially re-use their organic waste. We are committed to turning today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions at the intersection of waste, agriculture and energy.”

Paul Sellew, CEO


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Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 75 Year Founded: 2008 Website: www.harvestpower.com

Harvest is creating a more sustainable future by helping communities meet the challenges at the intersection of waste, agriculture and energy in the 21st century. We divert discarded organic materials – primarily yard trimmings and food scraps – from landfills and produce renewable energy and soil, mulch and natural fertiliser products through anaerobic digestion and composting. Harvest currently manages more than 2m tons of organic material through 28 operating sites in North America. The company has nearly 117,000MWh of heat and power generating capacity and sells millions of bags of soil, mulch and fertiliser products to homeowners, agricultural producers and landscapers annually. The company has grown rapidly since it started in 2008 and has a solid trajectory into the future.

North America faces five interlocking issues. First, landfilling has been identified as an unsustainable practice due to sites’ distances from populated centres; costs associated with their operation are high and steadily increasing; they have limited fill capacity; and the generation of methane gases from organic waste that future generations will have to be managed.

Second, recycling goals cannot be met using only current diversion strategies. Third, communities are seeking sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. Fourth, farms, gardens, nurseries and stormwater control projects demand high-quality, nutrient-rich soil and compost products. Finally, many municipalities have set aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Harvest’s business model transects three distinct industries: organics processing, biogas and energy, and organic fertilisers. We see addressable markets for turning discarded organics into energy and soil in communities around the world.


Paul Sellew, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Paul Sellew is the co-founder and CEO of Harvest Power and its group of companies. Paul has been a leader in the organics industry for more than 25 years. In 1982 he found-ed Earthgro, which grew to be the second largest producer of compost-based lawn and garden products in North America. Paul has also been a senior executive with Syna-gro, and founded and led International Process Systems, (composting technology provider), Allgro (compost market-ing firm), Environmental Credit Corporation (carbon credit creation and trading), and Backyard Farms (hydroponic greenhouse tomato producer). Paul is a graduate of Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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“Joule intends to become a leading global producer of renewable, infrastructure-ready fuels that achieve the costs and volumes required for meaningful adoption. Moreover, this goal can be accomplished with an environmentally sound process that avoids biomass feedstocks and instead converts waste CO2 directly into valuable fuels. The world’s energy needs are large enough to warrant various approaches, but Joule is poised to surpass even the maximum productivity of biomass-derived biofuels with dozens of commercial plants operating within the next several years.”

William Sims, CEO

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Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 90 Year Founded: 2007 Website: www.jouleunlimited.com

Joule is deploying a revolutionary platform for renewable fuel and chemical production that is expected to eclipse the scalability, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today.

Instead of making fuels from agricultural or algal biomass, Joule produces fuels directly and continuously from sunlight and waste CO2 – avoiding costly raw materials, pre-treatment and downstream processing. The company’s Helioculture platform uses photosynthetic micro-organisms as living catalysts to produce fuel, not as intermediates to produce lipids or sugars that are subsequently converted to fuel. The entire process takes place in a novel SolarConverter system, from photon capture to product creation and initial separation, with no requirement for arable land, fresh water or crops.

Joule’s highly efficient process, lack of feedstock constraints and readily scalable system will allow the company to deliver unprecedented volumes of renewable fuel at highly competitive costs. Upon full-scale commercialization, the company targets 25,000 gallons of Sunflow - E (sustainable ethanol) and 15,000 gallons of Sunflow-D (sustainable diesel) per acre annually, for as little as $1.28/gallon and $50/barrel respectively (excluding subsidies). The company has also engineered pathways for direct production of Sunflow-G (sustainable gasoline) and Sunflow-J (sustainable jet fuel) – high-percentage drop-in blends that will address additional multi-billion dollar markets via the same efficient process.

Joule has successfully pilot-tested its platform for over two years, commissioned its SunSprings demonstration plant, and launched a global subsidiary, Joule Fuels, to deploy fuel production sites worldwide. Initial construction is expected to begin in 2013, with commercial production beginning in 2014. Joule is privately held and has raised $110m-plus in funding to date. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with operations in Hobbs, New Mexico and The Hague, Netherlands.


William Sims, Chief Executive Officer

William ‘Bill’ Sims, president and CEO, is a proven leader with 30-plus years’ experience growing both emerging and established companies. Prior to Joule, he was CEO of Color Kinetics, the company largely credited for triggering the lighting industry’s historic shift towards energy-efficient LED technology. In the consumer electronics space, he led groups within JVC to market and product line expansion, and Zenith Sales Company’s overhaul and ultimate sale to LG Electronics. He also achieved success in the software industry, leading a division of e-SIM, a provider of advanced simulation technologies for cutting-edge consumer applica-tions. Bill currently serves on the boards of Lumenpulse and Pronutria. He holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Cali-fornia State University, Fullerton.

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“In order to address a number of strategic challenges, including rising supply costs and smart grid acceptance, utilities need to revolutionise their consum-er-facing infrastructure and deepen their relationship with their customers. The Opower platform is the only proven solution for the utility industry that drives greater customer collaboration and engagement, while meeting other impor-tant business objectives such as increasing energy efficiency.”

Daniel Yates, CEO


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Headquarters: USA Number of Employees: 280 Year Founded: 2007 Website: www.opower.com

Working with 80 utility partners and serving more than 15m consumers across six countries, Opower is the world’s leading provider of customer engagement solutions for the utility industry. By providing the tools, information and incentives consumers need to make smarter decisions about their energy use, Opower’s engagement platform and solution suite, Opower 4, enables utilities to involve their customers in programmes that support energy efficiency goals, smart grid and new rate structures, brand loyalty and lowering the cost of service.

Opower has developed a highly innovative way to harness the power of behavioral science and big data analytics, to motivate people to make simple changes to their daily routines that result in large-scale energy savings and a significantly improved utility-customer experience. Opower reaches consumers through a variety of communication channels, including printed home energy reports, emails, SMS, phone calls and the web. Over 1m households have access to the Opower platform, and over 7m receive printed reports.

Across all utility deployments, Opower consistently saves consumers 1.5-3.5% on their energy bills. Added up across all 80 deployments, that has a huge impact: to date, Opower has helped saved customers over $235m and over 2TWh of energy, enough to power a city the size of Atlanta.

Opower partnered with its first utility client in 2007 from a rented desk in San Francisco. Since then, the company has grown into a well-capitalised business with more than 330 employees serving more than 80 utilities around the world. Privately held, Opower is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices in San Francisco and London.


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//Daniel Yates, Founder and CEO

Daniel Yates is responsible for the vision, strategy, and leadership of Opower. Under him, Opower has become one of the fastest growing enterprise SaaS companies in the world: Dan has been recognized as one of the leading SaaS CEOs through honours such as Washington Busi-ness Journal’s Power 100, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Fortune’s “40 under 40,” and Washingtonian’s “Tech Titans.” Dan co-founded Opower with Alex Laskey in 2007. Prior to Opower, he was founder and CEO of Edu-soft, an educational software company that provided as-sessment platforms to US public school districts. He sold the 150-person, $20m company to publisher Houghton Mifflin in 2004. Dan received his BA in Computer Science from Harvard.

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“Our vision is be a leading technology company in the field of smart water network management and monitoring, increasing the overall efficiency and reliability of the network, through foresight and innovation.”

Issey Ende, CEO

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Headquarters: Israel Number of Employees: 75 Year Founded: 2007 Website: www.w-water.com

Whitewater was established in 2007 through the vision of Ori Yogev, Whitewater’s chairman. The company set out to address the needs of water quality and security in an era of heightened awareness of critical infrastructure protection. It built a strong portfolio in contamination warning systems, event detection, and early warning toxicity bio-monitoring. After initial deployments in the field, it was apparent that the technology had dual use benefits throughout the organisation. Using this knowledge, the company expanded its offerings, focusing on what could be improved by centralising, synchronising, analysing and automating data arriving from the existing IT environment of these utilities and industrials.

Whitewater’s offerings focus on unlocking available capital through increasing operating efficiency. The company believes in utilising existing data from business systems, sensor, telemetry networks, and institutional knowledge, to improve efficiency across the entire utility. Whitewater’s solutions can be configured to improve workflow management, optimise plant operations, enable total management of water quality, and provide critical security awareness.

Offerings include WaterWall, a platform-based software solution for smart water network management. It offers better accountability and control, easy access to organisational data, improved data quality, situational awareness and optimised customer service. BlueBox is a sophisticated self-learning water analytics software tool that supplements SCADA’s ability to analyse continuous data streams in real time. CheckLight is an online continuous toxicity analyser, using non-pathogenic luminescent bacteria as living sensors. It enables detection of a wide-spectrum of toxins, discriminating between organic toxicants and cationic heavy metals.

Issey Ende, Chief Executive Officer

Issey Ende has a proven track record in global operations and business management and is an expert in Asian busi-ness culture. Issey began his career in sales manage-ment and rapidly progressed to executive VP, sales and marketing at Eltek. In this role, he drove worldwide sales and marketing strategy, focusing on high-end PCB prod-ucts for the electronics industry. In 2003, he relocated to Shanghai where he served as president of Camtek China – a developer of AOI systems for the semiconductor indus-tries – overseeing its mainland China sales and marketing activities. Prior to joining Whitewater, Issey was general manager of NICE APAC in Greater China, taking overall responsibility for the company’s regional operations. Con-versant in Mandarin, he was a member of the Israeli Cham-ber of Commerce’s steering committee in China. He holds a BA in Management Business Administration from the University of Derby and served in the Israel Air Force.

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SELECTION COMMITTEE CHAIRS


Michael Wilshire Director of Analysis Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Michael is Director of Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, leading the teams that produce research on clean energy including Bioenergy, Wind, Solar, Energy Smart Technologies, CCS and geothermal.

Before joining Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael was a partner at McKinsey, where he consulted across a range of industries including energy, technology and telecoms. He worked with equipment providers and operators across Europe as well as in Asia and the US.

Previously, Michael worked in the UK Department of Energy in the 1980s across a variety of energy policy areas, including one of the very earliest privatisations (Amersham International), as well as deregulation of the gas industry, renewable energy, nuclear policy and the financing and privatisation of the electricity industry. During that period he was also private secretary to both the Minister of State for Energy and the Permanent Secretary.

Susan Kish Head, Cross Media Initiatives Bloomberg

Susan is the Head of Cross Platform Initiatives at Bloomberg, responsible for the development and execution of a portfolio of strategic projects across the divisions of the company.

Previously, Susan was the director of knowledge services at Bloomberg New Energy Finance and executive producer of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. Susan was both founder and chief executive officer of the independent think-tank First Tuesday Zurich, established to support the development of knowledge sharing in sustainable energy, information technology, and financial services. Following its 2006 acquisition by global professional online network XING, Susan became XING’s head of network and community practice. Susan is also the co-producer and host of the annual European Energy Venture Fair in Zurich.

Prior to her entrepreneurial career, Susan spent almost 20 years in financial services. That included over 14 years at UBS in a variety of executive positions such as global functional head of structured finance based in Zurich, and executive positions in New York where Susan was responsible for the bank’s entry into several new financial markets.

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SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS


Doug Arent Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Doug Arent is Executive Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He specializes in strategic planning and financial analysis competencies; clean energy technologies and energy and water issues; and international and governmental policies. In addition to his NREL responsibilities, Arent is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Arent was recently appointed as a Coordinating Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is a member of the Policy Subcommittee of the National Petroleum Council Study on Prudent Development of North America Natural Gas and Oil Resources, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future.

Arent served from 2008 to 2010 on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, and was recently appointed to the National Research Council (NRC). Arent is part of an expert committee that will provide ongoing and focused advice to the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) as the organization works to coordinate federal research on changes in the global environment. He served on the Executive Council of the U.S. Association of Energy Economists from 2008-2010.

Dr. Arent has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an MBA from Regis University, and a Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College in California.

Dominic Emery Chief Development Officer BP Alternative Energy

BP Alternative Energy was created at the end of 2005, and now comprises Biofuels, Wind and Corporate Ventures, with a plan to invest $8bn in Alternative Energy over 10 years. Dominic’s current responsibilities include corporate venture investment, strategy and investor relations for Alternative Energy.

Dominic is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has worked for BP since 1986. He has held positions in BP’s Exploration and Production Division, in Asia and the Middle East, and also in the UK North Sea. Dominic has led Gas and Power business development in the UK and Northern Europe, as well as running power and utility assets at BP industrial sites. Since joining Alternative Energy in 2007, he has been Commercial Director, Chief of Staff before moving to his current role in 2012.

He has jointly published two books and more than 20 papers and is married with one daughter.

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Rob Bernard Chief Environmental Strategist Microsoft

Rob Bernard is the Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft and is responsible for defining and implementing the global strategy for the company’s environmental efforts. In this role he oversees the company’s environmental impact at all levels including: working with product groups to create technology innovations in software and hardware that can help enable customers to minimize their impact on the environment, helping accelerate scientific breakthrough on environmental issues, assuring responsible business practices that work to reduce the company’s direct and indirect environmental impact, and working with partners in industry, government and non-government to engage on global environmental issues.

Under Rob’s leadership, Microsoft has set its first carbon reduction goal and rolled out a global campaign to engage with customers, partners and governments on ways to use information technology to reduce environmental impacts. Rob is a passionate speaker on the role technology can play in enabling energy efficiency, democratizing access to environmental information and advancing scientific breakthroughs. He has spoken on those topics at numerous events ranging from the Clinton Global Initiative to the United Nations COP15 Climate Change Conference, to the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:Nomics event. Rob has held various positions during his 15-year career at Microsoft. He has served in leadership roles ranging from marketing to business and technical management.

Prior to his career at Microsoft, Rob spent nearly 10 years in the construction and building management industry where he built and managed industrial and office properties. He attended the Wharton School of Business where he earned his MBA.

PJ Deschenes Principal Greentech Capital Advisors

PJ Deschenes is a Principal in the New York office of Greentech Capital Advisors. He advises clients involved in renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors, including wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and biofuels. PJ offers expertise in capital formation, project finance and financial structuring, and has advised a number of clients backed by leading private equity firms.

PJ joined Greentech Capital Advisors from GE Energy Financial Services, where he worked on equity investments in wind, biomass and solar energy projects and companies, including nearly 900MW of wind energy assets. Additionally, he worked closely with EFS’s commercial leaders to develop new structures to finance the construction and operation of renewable energy projects. Prior to EFS, PJ was a founding member and partner of BlueWave Strategies, a consulting firm that advised environmentally complex projects on development and regulatory issues.

PJ holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of the South with a BS in Forestry and Mathematics. PJ is a CFA charterholder and a LEED Accredited Professional.

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Bruce Huber Founder and Managing Partner Alexa Capital LLP

Bruce Huber is Founder and Managing Partner of Alexa Capital LLP, a newly formed merchant bank focused on the energy & environmental technologies sector, including professionals with experience in Europe, North America and Asia in the fields of investment banking, research and fund management.

Bruce has three decades experience in investment banking, most recently as global head of cleantech investment banking for Jefferies & Co (until mid-2011). He is an early pioneer in the new energy sector, having started his career in renewable energy project finance in 1983 (Warburg Paribas Becker and DLJ). Bruce has significant experience financing technology-centric growth companies across IT, telecoms, semiconductors/electronics, renewable energy & sustainable technologies, working at DLJ, Barclays investment bank, Broadview International and Jefferies.

Bruce lives in London with his wife and two children. He graduated with a BSc Engineering from Princeton University in 1983.

Peter Gutman Global Head – Renewable Energy & Environment Principal Finance Standard Chartered Bank

Peter Gutman is Global Head of Renewable Energy & Environment in the Principal Finance Group at Standard Chartered. He is responsible for leading the bank’s equity investing activities in the renewable energy and clean tech sectors. Prior to this, Peter developed the bank’s strategy for Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance. He is also a founding Board Member for the Clean Energy Business Council for the Middle East and North Africa and has served on the World Economic Forum’s Expert Committee for Green Investing.

Before joining Standard Chartered, Peter worked in the communications and technology sectors across investment banking, principal investment and operations. Most recently, he was the Chief Financial Officer at VNL, a London-based technology company, and prior to that he was a Managing Director at iFormation Group, a technology investment firm founded by Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic Partners. He has also spent over a decade in investment banking, both at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director in the Communications, Media & Technology Group, and at Lehman Brothers. Both at Lehman and Goldman Peter had global roles and responsibilities.

Peter has an engineering degree from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

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Michael Liebreich Chief Executive Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Michael Liebreich is Chief Executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading provider of research for decision-makers in the clean energy, water, carbon and power markets. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has close to 200 staff working out of 11 offices around the world. Michael founded the company in 2004 and acted as Chairman and Chief Executive until its acquisition by Bloomberg in 2009.

Michael is a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Energy for All, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the New Energy Architecture and Accenture’s Global Energy Board. He is a former member of the advisory board of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Energy and Climate Change working group, and of the selection panel for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Michael is a member of the selection panel for the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers. He is on the advisory panel for the INSEAD Energy Club and acts as visiting professor at London’s Imperial College Energy Futures Lab.

Prior to founding New Energy Finance, Michael was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and media executive. In the 1990s he acted as Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television and Founding Director of Sports News Television, and then as UK Managing Director of Groupe Arnault’s technology investment activities. He also spent five years in the London office of McKinsey & Company. Michael is a three-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Michael graduated in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, winning the Riccardo Prize for Thermodynamics. He earned his MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. Michael was a member of the British Ski Team at the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games and is Chairman of St. Mark’s Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.

Peter Littlewood Group Director – Operations CLP Holdings Limited

Peter Littlewood is CLP’s Group Director – Operations and is responsible for construction, operations, fuel procurement and for CLP’s Carbon Ventures and Research Institute. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee and a director of many of the Group’s subsidiary companies and joint ventures.

Peter joined the CLP Group in 1977 and has over 37 years’ experience in the power industry, mostly involved in project development, project management, operations and general management. He holds an MA degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme.

CLP is a private sector power company, listed in Hong Kong, with a current market capitalisation of around $20bn. CLP has investments, joint ventures and operations in Hong Kong, Mainland China, India, Thailand, Taiwan and Australia. It is the largest external investor in the Mainland China power market and the largest international investor in the power businesses of several other Asian countries.

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Nick Sangermano Managing Director Ambata Capital Partners

Nick Sangermano is a Managing Director of Ambata Capital Partners. In his role, Nick advises clients on private capital raises, transaction execution and business development, specializing in clean energy and sustainability. Nick also focuses on international markets and has conducted business on behalf of Ambata clients in more than a dozen countries, with a particular focus on the Middle East.

Formerly, Nick was Chief Operating Officer of Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a $1bn private equity fund dedicated to investing in renewable energy, where he was a member of the senior team that helped establish its inaugural fund.

Nick joined Hudson from Credit Suisse, where he was a Director in the Investment Bank. Prior to Credit Suisse, Nick was an Executive Director with CIBC in the strategy group and managed corporate initiatives totaling more than $1.5bn.

Nick began his career in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an officer and pilot.

He received an MBA from McGill University and a BA with honors from the University of Western Ontario.

Ethan Zindler Global Head of Policy Analysis Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Ethan is Head of Policy Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance with responsibility for managing and expanding coverage of key policy developments globally impacting renewables, biofuels, and energy efficiency. He is also specifically tasked with managing the company’s research efforts in the Americas.

From 2006 to May 2010, Zindler served as BNEF’s Head of North American Research. In that role, he set the firm’s research agenda for the US, Canada, and Mexico while overseeing a regional team of analysts, researchers, and news writers.

Based in Washington, Ethan’s particular area of expertise is US clean energy policy and he has written extensively on the Obama administration’s moves on key regulations as well as about legislation before Congress. Ethan serves as New Energy Finance’s main spokesperson in North America and has been quoted extensively in the media, including in the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Fortune, and elsewhere. He has spoken at numerous conferences including those organized by the United Nations, National Governors Association, Platts, and others. He has testified on clean energy issues before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee as well as the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Ethan previously served in the Clinton White House. He also spent two years as a reporter covering the controversy surrounding the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm.

Ethan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Georgetown University.

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ADVISOR TO THE SELECTION COMMITTEE

Gil Forer Global Leader, Global Cleantech Center Ernst & Young Gil oversees the strategic development, implementation and man-agement of Ernst & Young’s Global Cleantech Center around the world. Under his leadership, it has expanded significantly and helped Ernst & Young to strengthen its global leadership position serving cleantech companies. Gil is also responsible for building and managing Ernst & Young’s relationships with leading entrepreneurs, investors and other key stakeholders in the cleantech market. He works closely with the other Ernst & Young global industry centers, mainly Power & Utili-ties and Automotive, and with the Climate Change and Sustainabil-ity Services team. Gil leads the development of cleantech related research, thought leadership and strategic events, as well as the global business relationships with Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Dow Jones VentureOne. Gil holds an MBA with Honors in Marketing and Organizational Behavior and a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management from Boston University.

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SUPPORTING PARTNER

From start-ups to large corporations and national governments, organizations worldwide are embracing cleantech as a means of growth, efficiency, sustainability and competitive advantage. As cleantech enables a variety of industries, old and new, to transform and be part of a more resource-efficient and low-carbon economy, we see innovation in technology, business models, financing mechanisms, cross-industry partnerships and corporate adoption.

Ernst & Young’s Global Cleantech Center offers you a worldwide team of professionals in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services who understand the business dynamics of cleantech. We have the experience to help you make the most of opportunities in this marketplace, and address any challenges. Whichever sector or market you’re in, we can provide the insights you need to realize the benefits of cleantech.

For more than 30 years, we’ve helped many of the world’s most dynamic and ambitious companies grow into market leaders. Whether working with international mid-cap companies or early stage venture-backed businesses, our professionals draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help your business achieve its potential. It’s how Ernst & Young makes a difference.

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential. Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.


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THANK YOU We would also like to thank the following people for their valuable support and input: Tom Weirich Vice President of Corporate Relations Director, International Programs American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) Loukia Papadopoulos CEBC Program Manager Clean Energy Business Council Dr. Steven Griffith Executive Director, Office of Institute Initiatives Professor of Practice Masdar

Raed Ahmad Bkayrat, PhD Technology Application and Advancement Group Economic Development King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Vahid Fotuhi President & Founder Emirates Solar Industry Association (ESIA)

ABOUT BLOOMBERG NEW ENERGY FINANCEBloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) is the definitive source of insight, data and news on the transformation of the energy sector. BNEF has staff of more than 200, based in London, New York, Beijing, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Munich, New Delhi, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Zurich.

BNEF Insight Services provide financial, economic and policy analysis in the follow-ing industries and markets: wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro & marine, gas, nuclear, carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency, digital energy, energy storage, advanced transportation, carbon markets, REC markets, power markets and water. BNEF’s Industry Intelligence Service provides access to the world’s most compre-hensive database of assets, investments, companies and equipment in the same sec-tors. The BNEF News Service is the leading global news service focusing on finance, policy and economics for the same sectors. The group also undertakes custom re-search on behalf of clients and runs senior-level networking events, including the an-nual BNEF Summit, the premier event on the future of the energy industry.

New Energy Finance Limited was acquired by Bloomberg L.P. in December 2009, and its services and products are now owned and distributed by Bloomberg Finance L.P., except that Bloomberg L.P. and its subsidiaries (BLP) distribute these products in Argentina, Bermuda, China, India, Japan, and Korea. For more information on Bloomberg New Energy Finance: http://about.bnef.com

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Sarah Bryce T: +44 203 525 3821 E: [email protected]

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